Battle of Honey Springs

Italy competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. 231 competitors, 208 men and 23 women, took part in 114 events in 19 sports.^[1]

Medalists

Gold

• Pino Dordoni — Athletics, Men's 50 km Walk
• Aureliano Bolognesi — Boxing, Men's Lightweight
• Enzo Sacchi — Cycling, Men's 1.000m Sprint (Scratch)
• Loris Campana, Mino de Rossi, Guido Messina, and Marino Morettini — Cycling, Men's 4.000m Team Pursuit
• Edoardo Mangiarotti — Fencing, Men's Épée Individual
• Roberto Battaglia, Franco Bertinetti, Giuseppe Delfino, Dario Mangiarotti, Edoardo Mangiarotti, and Carlo Pavesi — Fencing, Men's Épée Team
• Irene Camber — Fencing, Women's Foil Individual
• Nicolò Rode and Agostino Straulino — Sailing, Men's Star

Silver

• Adolfo Consolini — Athletics, Men's Discus Throw
• Sergio Caprari — Boxing, Men's Featherweight
• Marino Morettini — Cycling, Men's 1.000m Time Trial
• Dino Bruni, Gianni Ghidini, and Vincenzo Zucconelli — Cycling, Men's Team Road Race
• Edoardo Mangiarotti — Fencing, Men's Foil Individual
• Giancarlo Bergamini, Manlio di Rosa, Edoardo Mangiarotti, Renzo Nostini, Giorgio Pellini, and Antonio Spallino — Fencing, Men's Foil Team
• Dario Mangiarotti — Fencing, Men's Épée Individual
• Gastone Darè, Roberto Ferrari, Renzo Nostini, Giorgio Pellini, Vincenzo Pinton, and Mauro Racca — Fencing, Men's Sabre Team
• Ignazio Fabra — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Flyweight

Bronze

• Bruno Visintin — Boxing, Men's Light Welterweight
• Raffaello Gambino, Cesare Rubini, Maurizio Mannelli, Geminio Ognio, Ermenegildo Arena, Renato De Sanzuane, Carlo Peretti, Renato Traiola, Vincenzo Polito, Salvatore Gionta and Lucio Ceccarini — Water Polo, Men's Team Competition
• Antonio Maspes and Cesare Pinarello — Cycling, Men's 2.000m Tandem
• Manlio di Rosa — Fencing, Men's Foil Individual

Athletics

Results

Men (25)
Athlete	Age	Event	Rank	Medal
Carlo Vittori	21	Men's 100 metres	6 h4 r2/4
Franco Leccese	27	Men's 100 metres	3 h8 r1/4
Wolfgango Montanari	21	Men's 100 metres	7 h7 r1/4
Giorgio Sobrero	22	Men's 200 metres	3 h13r1/4
Luigi Grossi	27	Men's 200 metres	4 h12r1/4
Lucio Sangermano	19	Men's 200 metres	4 h18r1/4
Gianni Rocca	23	Men's 400 metres	3 h6 r1/4
Vincenzo Lombardo	20	Men's 400 metres	3 h7 r1/4
Antonio Siddi	29	Men's 400 metres	4 h11r1/4
Armando Filiput	28	Men's 400 metres Hurdles	6
Franco Leccese	27	Men's 4 × 100 metres Relay	2 h1 r1/3
Antonio Siddi	29	Men's 4 × 100 metres Relay	2 h1 r1/3
Giorgio Sobrero	22	Men's 4 × 100 metres Relay	2 h1 r1/3
Carlo Vittori	21	Men's 4 × 100 metres Relay	2 h1 r1/3
Baldassare Porto	29	Men's 4 × 400 metres Relay	4 h2 r1/2
Gianni Rocca	23	Men's 4 × 400 metres Relay	4 h2 r1/2
Luigi Grossi	27	Men's 4 × 400 metres Relay	4 h2 r1/2
Armando Filiput	28	Men's 4 × 400 metres Relay	4 h2 r1/2
Asfò Bussotti	26	Men's Marathon	46
Artidoro Berti	31	Men's Marathon	53
Egilberto Martufi	26	Men's Marathon	AC
Bruno Fait	28	Men's 10 kilometres Walk	8
Telemaco Arcangeli	29	Men's 10 kilometres Walk	7 h2 r1/2
Pino Dordoni	26	Men's 50 kilometres Walk	1	Gold
Giuseppe Kressevich	36	Men's 50 kilometres Walk	10
Salvatore Cascino	34	Men's 50 kilometres Walk1	9
Adolfo Consolini	35	Men's Discus Throw	2	Silver
Giuseppe Tosi	36	Men's Discus Throw	8
Teseo Taddia	32	Men's Hammer Throw	10
Aivo Lucioli	23	Men's Hammer Throw	26 QR
Amos Matteucci	37	Men's Javelin Throw	17
Angiolo Profeti	34	Men's Shot Put	12
Women (8)
Athlete	Age	Event	Rank	Medal
Giuseppina Leone	17	Women's 100 metres	4 h1 r2/4
Liliana Tagliaferri	23	Women's 100 metres	6 h4 r2/4
Vittoria Cesarini	19	Women's 100 metres	3 h3 r1/4
Vera Martelli	21	Women's 200 metres	6 h3 r1/3
Vittoria Cesarini	19	Women's 4 × 100 metres Relay	3 h2 r1/2
Milena Greppi	23	Women's 4 × 100 metres Relay	3 h2 r1/2
Giuseppina Leone	17	Women's 4 × 100 metres Relay	3 h2 r1/2
Liliana Tagliaferri	23	Women's 4 × 100 metres Relay	3 h2 r1/2
Milena Greppi	23	Women's 80 metres Hurdles	6 h1 r2/3
Maria Musso	21	Women's 80 metres Hurdle	s4 h5 r1/3
Edera Cordiale	32	Women's Discus Throw	14
Ada Turci	28	Women's Javelin Throw	11

Basketball

Men's Team Competition

• Qualification Round (Group C)

• Lost to Canada (57-68)
• Defeated Turkey (49-37)
• Defeated Romania (53-39)
• Lost to Egypt (62-66) → did not advance, 17th place

Boxing

Canoeing

Cycling

Road Competition

Men's Individual Road Race (190.4 km)

• Dino Bruni — 5:10:54.0 (→ 5th place)
• Vincenzo Zucconelli — 5:11:16.5 (→ 6th place)
• Gianni Ghidini — 5:11:16.8 (→ 7th place)
• Bruno Monti — 5:11:35.0 (→ 15th place)

Track Competition

Men's 1.000m Time Trial

• Marino Morettini

• Final — 1:12.7 (→ Silver Medal)

Men's 1.000m Sprint Scratch Race

• Enzo Sacchi — Gold Medal

Men's 4.000m Team Pursuit

• Guido Messina, Loris Campana, Marino Morettini, and Mino de Rossi

• Final — defeated South Africa (→ Gold Medal)

Diving

Men's 3m Springboard

• Lamberto Mari

• Preliminary Round — 54.42 points (→ 32nd place)

Equestrian

Fencing

18 fencers, 15 men and 3 women, represented Italy in 1952.

Men's foil

• Edoardo Mangiarotti
• Manlio Di Rosa
• Giancarlo Bergamini

Men's team foil

• Edoardo Mangiarotti, Manlio Di Rosa, Giancarlo Bergamini, Antonio Spallino, Giorgio Pellini, Renzo Nostini

Men's épée

• Edoardo Mangiarotti
• Dario Mangiarotti
• Carlo Pavesi

Men's team épée

• Edoardo Mangiarotti, Dario Mangiarotti, Giuseppe Delfino, Carlo Pavesi, Franco Bertinetti, Roberto Battaglia

Men's sabre

• Gastone Darè
• Vincenzo Pinton
• Renzo Nostini

Men's team sabre

• Vincenzo Pinton, Renzo Nostini, Gastone Darè, Mauro Racca, Roberto Ferrari, Giorgio Pellini

Women's foil

• Irene Camber-Corno
• Silvia Strukel
• Velleda Cesari

Football

Men's Team Competition

• Team Roster

• (1.) Ottavio Bugatti
• (2.) Giuseppe Corradi
• (3.) Amos Cardarelli
• (4.) Maino Neri
• (5.) Giovanni Azzini
• (6.) Arcadio Venturi
• (7.) Giampiero Boniperti
• (8.) Egisto Pandolfini
• (9.) Pasquale Vivolo
• (10.) Aredio Gimona
• (11.) Francesco La Rosa
• (12.) Anselmo Giorcelli
• (13.) Amos Mariani
• (14.) Giancarlo Cadé
• (15.) Battista Rota
• (16.) Giovani Capurro
• (17.) Alberto Fontanesi
• (18.) Corrado Viciani
• (19.) Rino Ferrario
• (20.) Roberto Lovati

Gymnastics

Men's team competition

• Team Roster
• Fabio Bonacina
• Silvio Brivio
• Arrigo Carnoli
• Guido Figone
• Orlando Polmonari
• Littorio Sampieri
• Quinto Vadi
• Luigi Zanetti

Women's team competition

• Team Roster
• Renata Bianchi
• Grazia Bozzo
• Miranda Cicognani
• Elisabetta Durelli
• Licia Macchini
• Lidia Pitteri
• Luciana Reali
• Liliana Scaricabarozzi

Hockey

Modern pentathlon

Three male pentathletes represented Italy in 1952.

Individual

• Alfonso Marotta
• Duilio Brignetti
• Giulio Palmonella

Team

• Alfonso Marotta
• Duilio Brignetti
• Giulio Palmonella

Rowing

Italy had 26 male rowers participate in all seven rowing events in 1952.^[2]

Men's single sculls

• Ugo Pifferi

Men's double sculls

• Silvio Bergamini
• Lodovico Sommaruga

Men's coxless pair

• Bruno Gamba
• Antonio Saverio

Men's coxed pair

• Giuseppe Ramani
• Aldo Tarlao
• Luciano Marion (cox)

Men's coxless four

• Giuseppe Moioli
• Elio Morille
• Giovanni Invernizzi
• Franco Faggi

Men's coxed four

• Albino Trevisan
• Amadeo Scarpi
• Abbondio Smerghetto
• Tarquinio Angiolin
• Domenico Cambieri (cox)

Men's eight

• Albino Baldan
• Savino Dalla Puppa
• Alberto Bozzato
• Ferdinando Smerghetto
• Montanino Nuvoli
• Dino Nardin
• Ottorino Enzo
• Pier Nicola Attorese
• Sergio Ghiatto (cox)

Sailing

Shooting

Eight shooters represented Italy in 1952.

25 m pistol

• Giorgio Pennacchietti
• Michelangelo Borriello

50 m pistol

• Luciano Galesi
• Renato Sacchi

100m running deer

• Luigi Ruspoli
• Ladislao Odescalchi

Trap

• Galliano Rossini
• Italo Bellini

Swimming

Water polo

Men's Team Competition

• Team Roster

• Ermenegildo Arena
• Lucio Ceccarini
• Renato De Sanzuane
• Raffaello Gambino
• Salvatore Gionta
• Maurizio Mannelli
• Germinio Ognio
• Carlo Peretti
• Vincenzo Polito
• Cesare Rubini
• Renato Traiolo

Weightlifting

Wrestling

References

External links

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Media related to Italy at the 1952 Summer Olympics at Wikimedia Commons